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iPod Touch References Found in Apple Source Code – What, Again?

30 January, 201930 January, 2019e-Reading Hardware, iDevice, RumorsOne Comment

The hot Apple story this week is speculation that Apple might release a new iPod Tuch to replace the four-year-old model. From TechRadar: If newly unearthed code in iOS...

Apple’s Latest Deals Raise Possibility of Apple Books App Coming to Android

11 January, 201911 January, 2019Apple4 Comments

For the longest time now optimists have been hoping that Apple would launch the iBooks app on other platforms. Given Apple's long-standing policy of only offering their services on...

Apple & Audible Release Six Public Domain Audiobooks for Free

18 December, 201818 December, 2018Audiobook, Freebies, iBooks3 Comments

Apple kicked off a new ebook marketing push yesterday with a new affiliate toolbox, and as part of that marketing effort it has also released six audiobooks in partnership...

Apple Releases New Apple Books Affiliate Marketing Toolbox

17 December, 201817 December, 2018iBooksOne Comment

One of Amazon's great strengths in the book market and elsewhere is its affiliate program. It's just easier to use an Amazon affiliate link than to use one linking...

Pages Now Publishes Directly to Apple Books

9 November, 20189 November, 2018Apple, e-Reading Software, iBooks AuthorOne Comment

Apple is now promoting their word processing app with the pitch that you can use it to publish a book to Apple Books: Publish your book directly to Apple...

Apple Invites Media to Event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

18 October, 201818 October, 2018Apple2 Comments

Apple is holding another event in a couple weeks. This one will be located at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the 30th, and is expected to cover a...

How to Lease a Virtual Mac Online to Upload eBooks to iBooks

1 July, 201818 August, 2018iBooks, Self-Pub12 Comments

Apple is notorious for the ridiculously pointless rule that if you want to sell ebooks on their platform, you have to use their app and their hardware to do...

Apple to Launch Subscription Service – No Mention of eBooks

28 June, 201829 June, 2018Apple4 Comments

Apple is reportedly going to launch a content subscription service. There's no mention of ebooks, but it will include magazines, music, and the tv shows Apple is currently developing....

What We Know About the New Apple Pages

3 April, 20183 April, 2018e-Reading Software, iBooks Author2 Comments

When Apple launched a new ebook-focused version of Pages last week, some took it to mean that Apple was junking iBooks Author in favor of Pages. Others mistakenly saw...

Apple Reader to Feature a 7.9″ E-ink Screen, Will Ship With Apple Library Subscription eBook Service

31 March, 20181 April, 2018e-Reading Hardware, iDevice14 Comments

Over the past several months a number of sources have claimed that Apple was about to get serious about competing in the ebook market. I discounted the reports as...

New Apple iPad Gains Support for Apple’s Apple Pencil, and Schools Can Get it at a Discount

27 March, 201827 March, 2018e-Reading Hardware, iDevice10 Comments

As expected, Apple launched a new iPad in Chicago on Tuesday, but it's not really cheaper than previous models, although it is also better in several ways. The new...

Apple to Unveil Lower-Cost iPad Next Week (?)

23 March, 201823 March, 2018Apple, e-Reading Hardware6 Comments

Apple has a launch event scheduled next week. The invite suggested that it would focus on the ed tech market, and now it appears that the presentation will center...

iBooks App to Feature ‘Today’ Section in iOS 12 (?)

22 March, 201822 March, 2018e-Reading Software, iBooks, Rumors3 Comments

There's a new rumor going around that the nest major release of iOS will feature a radically redesigned iBooks app. MacRumors is repeating an unsubstantiated report in the Japanese blog Mac...

Apple to Drop iTunes Support for Windows XP, Vista Users on 25 May

25 February, 201826 February, 2018AppleOne Comment

On Friday Apple notified iTunes users that a 25 May security update will make iTunes incompatible with Windows XP or Vista. On May 25, 2018, Apple will introduce security...

Bloomberg: Apple Changing the Name of iBooks to Books Means a New Fight in the eBook Market

25 January, 201825 January, 2018iBooks9 Comments

Bloomberg is making a mountain out of a molehill over an upcoming change to one of Apple's apps. Someone over there heard that Apple is updating iBooks and changing...

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